Panegyric on England - contrasting it favourably with foreign countries and also praising Charles II - written at the suggestion of Temple's sister Lady Giffard when he was returning home by sea with the Dutch proposals for the Triple Alliance. Preceded by the final couplet of Temple's poem on the death of Katherine Philips, "And he deserves it who of all the rest/Praises and imitates Orinda best".
Upon the approach of the shore at Harwich, in January 1668; begun under the mast at the desire of my Lady Giffard, by Sir William Temple
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- Dates of Creation1668
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- Language of MaterialEnglish
- Physical Description2 ff. Two leaves, bifolium, a fair copy in a later 17th-century hand
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Administrative / Biographical History
Sir William Temple (1628-99), diplomat, statesman and author, was also a patron of Jonathan Swift, who served as his secretary. See the Dictionary of National Biography for a detailed account of his life.
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Bought from Quaritch (Sotheby), May 1969
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In English
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Bibliography
Identified in Oliver S. Pickering, "An Early Manuscript Fragment of Sir William Temple's Poetry", in Swift Studies, 6 (1991), 119-22.